With the spring comes and the peak of the activity of programmers in the off-hours - we again have to break the March review into two parts. The basis of social life this month is small meetings on interests - languages (Pythpn, Lua, Elixir), web development, testing.
GetIT Meetup # 2
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When: March 1
Where: Moscow, Oruzheyny per., 41, entrance from the Garden Ring
Participation conditions: free, registration required
MegaFon continues its series of professional development meetings for developers. This time, the reports will deal with various facets of the workflow inside and outside the team: what to consider when recruiting people, how to interact with the HR department, what to do with remote teams and what is needed for healthy communication.
GameDev CityFest
When: March 2
Where: Novosibirsk, st. Lenina, 26, business hotel Domina Novosibirsk
Participation conditions: 4000 rub.
All the color of Siberian gamedev will gather at one site as part of Gamedev Weekend for an active exchange of experience. There will be technical reports (engines, game mechanics, level design, character animation, other graphics), and presentations on project management, career movement, and user interaction. Of course, everything will not be limited to reports: a Showcase zone with projects is being prepared (now extended), and open discussions with the participation of experts, and a variety of entertainment during the breaks.
Web @ Cafe # 19
When: March 2
Where: Omsk, st. Dumskaya 7, 501 office
Participation conditions: free, registration required
Comfortable stories about web technologies from practicing developers from the local community. This time, two stories will be heard at the mitap: on how React Hooks allow you to use the same components in the functional components as in the classes, and simplify life in other ways, and on how growth-oriented designers should act - the right priorities, useful skills and stuff.
Hackathon "Sticker painting"
When: March 2
Where: Yekaterinburg, st. Khokhryakova 10, Business Center Palladium, 4th floor
Participation conditions: free, registration required
A nontrivial task from Yandex for everyone is to create a working alternative to the good old chalkboard with stickers. Teams will be asked to make a service capable of collecting tasks from different sources, filter data, selecting them for specific fields, format information in the form of stickers, generate an HTML page and a PDF version and, finally, send the final result to print. The range of technologies - JavaScript, Node.js, Express.js and React. Participants will receive not only moral satisfaction, but also a final decision on their hands, in order to use it in their work.
JSNN # 12
When: March 2
Where: Nizhny Novgorod, st. Akademika Sakharova, 4, Technopark, 2nd floor
Participation conditions: free
Everyone who works with JS in Nizhny Novgorod, will be happy to see at the next general gathering to discuss pressing matters. In particular, they are waiting for the analysis and comparison of two popular ways to work with side effects on React (sagas and thunks), the secrets of creating convenient and productive components on Angular, a review of the advantages of Ember, the principles of working with Tensorflow.js, the explanation of the internal structure of the Webpack bundle and its hidden features.
Quality Assurance Meetup
When: March 2
Where: Rostov-on-Don, st. Suvorov, 91, Southern IT Park
Participation conditions: free, registration required
Testers also need to communicate, and more than a hundred will gather at the Rostov site for this purpose. Declared four reports from testers from different teams. The first one is a case from CusDeb, where a specialist will tell about testing a whole series of products that use single-board computers. The second will be dedicated to tools for deep testing of mobile applications. The third discussion focuses on testing services for working with social networks - the integration process, technology stack, difficulties and useful tips. Well, the fourth reveals the possibilities of unit testing for the database, as well as the pros and cons of the tSQLt framework.
Lua in Moscow 2019
When: March 3
Where: Moscow, address specified
Participation conditions: free, registration required
The third international Lua conference from Mail.ru will be held in a big way - not only major domestic and foreign experts will be among the participants, but also the author of the language, Roberto Ierusalimsky. Keep in mind, firstly, that the number of places is very limited, and secondly, that the official language of the conference is English.
Hedera Hashgraph: An Exclusive Open Access Preview
When: March 4
Where: St. Petersburg, Medikov prospect, 3, Boiling Point
Participation conditions: free, registration required
And another interesting guest promises to visit the capital in March - Tom Trowbridge, President of Hedera Hashgraph. In his report, he promised a lot of insider information on decentralized systems in general and the distributed registry developed by the company, in particular. Among other things, the audience learns about the status and degree of readiness of the platform for a public release, the predicted model of a decentralized economy, the place that the Hedera token will occupy in it, and useful resources for developers using blockchain technologies.
Frontend 2019. The latest technology and tools
When: March 6
Where: Moscow, Small Konyushkovsky Lane, 2, boiling point
Participation conditions: free, registration required
A focused discussion of new technologies in all details of their implementation in the processes: how to smoothly move and gently adapt. Each of the four reports will be devoted to a specific tool: how to implement GraphQL in a client application with TypeScript integration; how to use web components and not be afraid of old browsers; What is the difference between the approaches lit-element and stencil; migration from an isomorphic application to a static generator. This is the main part of the program, followed by questions from the audience and chat and, of course, pizza.
ElixirLangMoscow Meetup # 9
When: March 6
Where: Moscow, Leningradsky Avenue, 39, p. 79, SkyLight business center
Participation conditions: free, registration required
New season mitapov from Mail.ru Group about everything related to the language of Elixir is announced open. This time, community representatives will not only share their expertise on Elixir itself, but will also touch on hardcore Erlang. The report on Erlang will review the history of the development of this virtual machine and the specifics of its work with memory in different languages. The other two will discuss the applicability of Elixir for the development of blockchain platforms and prediction systems with detailed case studies from the participating companies. Of course, there will be time for after-party with socializing, eating and continuing the topic at the bar.
IT Sreda # 4
When: March 6
Where: St. Petersburg, st. Dostoevsky, 19/21, lit. B, Dionysus Hall
Participation conditions: free, registration required
Meet Python developers who love risk and artificial intelligence and want to work with the latter. The range of topics is relevant - Deep Learning, computational linguistics, P2P video streaming, chat bots. Anything that does not cover the reports can be refunded during the time allotted for free communication.
Python Workshop
When: March 9
Where: Nizhny Novgorod, Zelensky Congress, 4
Participation conditions: free, registration required
And a little more Python, this time a general profile. In this series of meetings, organizers strive to help people improve their professional level and work out soft skills. Accordingly, the reports are distinguished by their diversity - for example, this time one will be devoted to the pandas library of data analysis tasks, the other to the ability to refuse.
Open lecture of the Advanced HTML Layout course
When: March 13
Where: St. Petersburg, Kronverksky Avenue, 23
Participation conditions: free, registration required
The school of Internet technologies Epic Skills organizes a full-time HTML-layout course, covering everything from markup to communication with designers. The first open lesson is a great way to get acquainted with the teaching style and level of training for free. Along the way, the speaker will tell all about the content and organization of the course, and will also give a lecture on the BEM methodology and the Pug template engine.
IDC Security Roadshow 2019
When: March 14
Where: Moscow, st. Rusakovskaya, 24
Participation conditions: 6500 rub. + VAT
Conference on all components of information security - technology, architecture, processes, politics, people. Leading industry experts are invited to share their insights on how to protect business in a multi-platform digital environment. The range of topics covers the security of applications, clouds and networks, cyber-resistance practices and risk management, compatibility with Agile and DevOps, protection against DDoS, and legal requirements.
Droid Party: Yandex. Phone
When: March 14
Where: Moscow, st. Leo Tolstoy, 16
Participation conditions: free, registration required
Opportunity for Android developers to meet and chat with the team that created Yandex.Telephone. Yandex developers will talk in detail about how the work was done, and share conclusions that may be useful to other developers of applications and devices. In particular, it will highlight ways to use memory and control its consumption, benefit from various firmware and frameworks for voice assistants, change the system settings to fit your needs.